LedgerEdge calls for industry participation in bond platform design
LedgerEdge, a new emerging ecosystem for the exchange of data and assets in the corporate bond market, has said Tim Cook, head of business...
Dimensional promotes in US and APAC
Dimensional Fund Advisors has promoted Julian Aziz as a senior trader in California and Archit Soni as a senior portfolio manager in Singapore.
Dimensional holds...
UBS Group completes next stage of Credit Suisse merger
UBS Group has completed the merger of UBS AG and Credit Suisse AG, completing the project within the expected timeline.
Credit Suisse AG has been...
South Korean government bonds join FTSE World Government Bond Index
FTSE Russell has published the results of its annual country classification review for countries monitored by its global fixed income indices, reclassifying South Korean...
Dom Holland joins LedgerEdge
LedgerEdge, the distributed ledger ecosystem for corporate bond trading, has appointed senior fixed income specialist Dom Holland to the role of business development for...
Tradeweb: Credit markets see growing confidence in automation and pre-trade data
Despite heightened volatility, Jack Roberts and Liane Fahey of Tradeweb say credit markets are seeing growing confidence in automation and the use of pre-trade...
Implications of Atlanta Fed negative GDPNow score for US credit
The Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow estimate for real GDP growth in the US hit 2.4% on 6 March 2025, up from -2.8 percent on 3 March,...
September takes the biscuit in new issues
September did not disappoint in its delivery of high issuance in the US for corporate bonds across both investment grade and high yield. Monthly...
Viewpoint: Rating changes increase appetite for trading desk data
Dan Barnes asks Emil Parmar, Director of Credit Trading Solutions at London Stock Exchange Group how the better provision of analytics drives more effective...
DLT – What is the value in primary markets?
A recent study prepared on behalf of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) by Boston Consulting Group, Cravath, Swaine, and Moore LLP, and Clifford...
Franklin Templeton to buy Putnam Investments
Franklin Templeton has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Putnam Investments from Great-West for approximately US$925 million largely in equities.
Great-West will become...
ICE: Optimizing the data pipeline for buy-side trading desks
Buy-side bond traders can enhance execution through a flexible data offering.
The DESK spoke with Mark Heckert, ICE’s Chief Operating Officer of Fixed Income...
